Constituency
204. Pingla
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1972
WB-PINGLA
INC 58.6%won by 18.2%IND 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.5% to 18.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 70.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
50,259
Margin
9,125
18.16%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BIJOY DASIndian National Congress · INC29,46058.6%
- 2GOURANGA SAMANTAIndependent · IND20,33540.5%
- 3MANIK MURMUJan Kalyan Party · JKP4640.9%
Since 1971
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −6.0%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 58.6%
- IND share
- 21.8% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —